Leota Alleine DoRemus

Leota was born in Pond Creek, Oklahoma weighing 3lbs – born in a Gas station her father owned. She was so tiny her first bed was a shoe box. She fought all odds from being sick with pneumonia every winter until her parents moved her to Arizona for a few years requested by the doctor to return to Oklahoma to never have problems like that again. From day one she fought the odds and lived a long life.

She loved to play basketball in school – her legs were so skinny that her knee pads would never stay up and she always banged up her knees but kept on playing.

Leota went to Enid high school where she met Michael DoRemus and later got married.

They had four kids together 3 sons and 1 daughter.

They lived for a few years in Everett Washington where she worked for the police station and wanted to be a police office but then they had to move back to Oklahoma for my dad to go to college which she never got to proceed on with being a police officer.

After she helped my dad get out of college they settled down in Mesquite, Tx and joined the First Christian Church. She retired at Texas Utilities and then they moved to Terrell, Tx to build a house on some land.

Leota loved family, she would do anything for her family and especially for the Grandchildren. She was a very loving mother and Grandmother along with a Great grandmother.

She was always cooking Sunday dinners for everyone. Every Christmas you could always rely on her to make her homemade cinnamon rolls and sausage egg casserole. She spoiled my dad with home made peanut brittle and the best oatmeal cookies.

Funny things she would tell us –

Raise chickens not children so when they get on your nerves

You can just eat them! She would always look at us and laugh!

When Marisela married her son Dennis she told her she was going to make her sign a contract upon marriage no return!

She loved the slot machines and always lucky even though she never spent hardly any money. Her and my dad loved to go to the horse races with family and friends just to have a great time. She loved to read books especially a great mystery.

Leota loved God and her family.